Matt Frei,
Europe Editor and Presenter

This year he has led the Channel 4 News coverage of events in Ukraine from the crash site of Malaysia flight MH17, to the tensions in Crimea and reported live from Independence Square on Kiev’s bloodiest day. He has also secured major interviews with Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Aung San Suu Kyi.

Prior to his appointment as Europe Editor for Channel 4 News, Frei was the Washington Correspondent for two years and has reported on the Americas on everything from business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world.

He is also part of the presenting team across Channel 4's news and current affairs portfolio, including the award-winning Dispatches programme.

Matt previously anchored the BBC World News America bulletin and was also Washington Correspondent. He presented a weekly radio show called Americana, and in two decades at the corporation reported from Bonn, Rome, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore.

He is the author of two books: Italy: The Unfinished Revolution published in 1996 by Random House and Mandarin books and Only In America published in 2008 by 4th Estate.

The European Union has called an emergency leaders’ summit for April 10th to assess the latest twist in Britain’s Brexit saga, warning that a chaotic exit from the EU is “now a likely scenario”, with all 27 member states now fully prepared.

Belgian MEP Philippe Lamberts sits on the Brexit Steering Group in the European Parliament. We asked him if he had any sense of what sort of wording on the backstop the European Commission could come up with to help Mrs May win over the Brexiteers.

Hard Brexit, soft Brexit, no Brexit – the subject is sucking the oxygen out of the European Union, impatient to tackle the big battle between nationalism and internationalism ahead of its own elections in May.